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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-02-19 22:16:42 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-02-19 22:16:42 +0000
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@@ -3,13 +3,16 @@
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
-<sect1 id="ch-system-gettext" xreflabel="Gettext" role="wrap">
+<sect1 id="ch-system-gettext" role="wrap">
<title>Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="gettext.html"?>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext"><primary sortas="a-Gettext">Gettext</primary></indexterm>
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
+<para>The Gettext package contains utilities for internationalization and
+localization. These allow programs to be compiled with NLS, enabling them
+to output messages in the user's native language.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -17,6 +20,11 @@
<seglistitem><seg>0.5 SBU</seg><seg>55 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Gettext installation depends on</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils,
+Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
@@ -31,9 +39,10 @@
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:
-<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
+<userinput>make check</userinput>. This takes a very long time, around
+7 SBUs.</para>
-<para>Now install the package:</para>
+<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
@@ -42,8 +51,257 @@
<sect2 id="contents-gettext" role="content"><title>Contents of Gettext</title>
-<para>See testing</para>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+<segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>autopoint, config.charset, config.rpath, envsubst, gettext,
+gettextize, hostname, msgattrib, msgcat, msgcmp, msgcomm, msgconv, msgen,
+msgexec, msgfilter, msgfmt, msggrep, msginit, msgmerge, msgunfmt, msguniq,
+ngettext, and xgettext</seg>
+<seg>libasprintf[a,so], libgettextlib[a,so], libgettextpo[a,so] and libgettextsrc[a,so]</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
+
+<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+
+<varlistentry id="autopoint">
+<term><command>autopoint</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Copies standard Gettext infrastructure files into a source package</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext autopoint"><primary sortas="b-autopoint">autopoint</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="config.charset">
+<term><command>config.charset</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Outputs a system-dependent table of character encoding aliases</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext config.charset"><primary sortas="b-config.charset">config.charset</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="config.rpath">
+<term><command>config.rpath</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Outputs a system-dependent set of variables, describing how to set the
+runtime search path of shared libraries in an executable</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext config.rpath"><primary sortas="b-config.rpath">config.rpath</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="envsubst">
+<term><command>envsubst</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Substitutes environment variables in shell format strings</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext envsubst"><primary sortas="b-envsubst">envsubst</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="gettext">
+<term><command>gettext</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Translates a natural language message into the user's language
+by looking up the translation in a message catalog</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext gettext"><primary sortas="b-gettext">gettext</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="gettextize">
+<term><command>gettextize</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Copies all standard Gettext files into the given top-level
+directory of a package to begin internationalizing it</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext gettextize"><primary sortas="b-gettextize">gettextize</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="hostname-gettext">
+<term><command>hostname</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Displays a network hostname in various forms</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext hostname-gettext"><primary sortas="b-hostname-gettext">hostname</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgattrib">
+<term><command>msgattrib</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Filters the messages of a translation catalog according to their
+attributes and manipulates the attributes</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgattrib"><primary sortas="b-msgattrib">msgattrib</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgcat">
+<term><command>msgcat</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Concatenates and merges the given <filename class="extension">.po</filename> files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcat"><primary sortas="b-msgcat">msgcat</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgcmp">
+<term><command>msgcmp</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Compares two <filename class="extension">.po</filename>
+files to check that both contain the same set of msgid strings</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcmp"><primary sortas="b-msgcmp">msgcmp</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgcomm">
+<term><command>msgcomm</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Finds the messages that are common to
+to the given <filename class="extension">.po</filename> files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgcomm"><primary sortas="b-msgcomm">msgcomm</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgconv">
+<term><command>msgconv</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Converts a translation catalog to a different character encoding</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgconv"><primary sortas="b-msgconv">msgconv</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgen">
+<term><command>msgen</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Creates an English translation catalog</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgen"><primary sortas="b-msgen">msgen</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgexec">
+<term><command>msgexec</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Applies a command to all translations of a translation catalog</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgexec"><primary sortas="b-msgexec">msgexec</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgfilter">
+<term><command>msgfilter</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Applies a filter to all translations of a translation catalog</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgfilter"><primary sortas="b-msgfilter">msgfilter</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgfmt">
+<term><command>msgfmt</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Generates a binary message catalog from from a translation catalog</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgfmt"><primary sortas="b-msgfmt">msgfmt</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msggrep">
+<term><command>msggrep</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Extracts all messages of a translation catalog that match a
+given pattern or belong to some given source files</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msggrep"><primary sortas="b-msggrep">msggrep</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msginit">
+<term><command>msginit</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Creates a new <filename class="extension">.po</filename> file, initializing the meta
+information with values from the user's environment</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msginit"><primary sortas="b-msginit">msginit</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgmerge">
+<term><command>msgmerge</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Combines two raw translations into a single file</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgmerge"><primary sortas="b-msgmerge">msgmerge</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msgunfmt">
+<term><command>msgunfmt</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Decompiles a binary message catalog into raw translation text</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msgunfmt"><primary sortas="b-msgunfmt">msgunfmt</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="msguniq">
+<term><command>msguniq</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Unifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext msguniq"><primary sortas="b-msguniq">msguniq</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="ngettext">
+<term><command>ngettext</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Displays native language translations of a textual message whose
+grammatical form depends on a number</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext ngettext"><primary sortas="b-ngettext">ngettext</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="xgettext">
+<term><command>xgettext</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Extracts the translatable message lines from the given source
+files to make the first translation template</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext xgettext"><primary sortas="b-xgettext">xgettext</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="libasprintf">
+<term><filename class="libraryfile">libasprintf</filename></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>defines the <emphasis>autosprintf</emphasis> class, which makes
+C formatted output routines usable in C++ programs, for use with the
+<emphasis>&lt;string&gt;</emphasis> strings and the
+<emphasis>&lt;iostream&gt;</emphasis> streams</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libasprintf"><primary sortas="c-libasprintf">libasprintf</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="libgettextlib">
+<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgettextlib</filename></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>a private library containing common routines used by the various Gettext
+programs; these are not intended for general use</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextlib"><primary sortas="c-libgettextlib">libgettextlib</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="libgettextpo">
+<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgettextpo</filename></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Used to write specialized programs that process <filename
+class="extension">.po</filename> files; this library is used when the
+standard applications shipped with Gettext (such as
+<command>msgcomm</command>, <command>msgcmp</command>,
+<command>msgattrib</command>, and <command>msgen</command>) will not
+suffice</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextpo"><primary sortas="c-libgettextpo">libgettextpo</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="libgettextsrc">
+<term><filename class="libraryfile">libgettextsrc</filename></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>A private library containing common routines used by the various Gettext
+programs; these are not intended for general use</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-gettext libgettextsrc"><primary sortas="c-libgettextsrc">libgettextsrc</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
+